Forty years ago this week, President Ronald Reagan lit a fuse that would bring down an empire. In a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, Reagan didn’t mince words. He put the blame for ...
The Cold War stands as one of the most significant events in United States and world history. Pavel Palazhchenko offers a unique perspective on that era.
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by William Inboden, executive director of the Clements Center for National Security and associate professor of public policy and history at the LBJ School of Public ...
Neoconservative writer Max Boot provides a preview of his new biography of Ronald Reagan by claiming in a Foreign Affairs essay that Ronald Reagan did not win the Cold War. Boot characterizes as “myth ...
Remember Reykjavik. That’s my advice to those panicking over President Trump’s decision to walk away from President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Reykjavik was the site of a summit in Iceland where, ...
The What the Hell crew continues our summer reading series! Our next pick is The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink. The Peacemaker’s focus is Ronald Reagan’s foreign ...
Ronald Reagan’s statesmanship was far more complex and contradictory than is often portrayed by both his supporters and his detractors. On the one hand, he pushed for a U.S. rearmament program, ...
IT CAN’T BE SAID that Ronald Reagan ever had many fans in American academia. After he declared the Soviet Union an “evil empire,” Henry Steele Commager sneered: “The worst presidential speech in ...
For years, President Ronald Reagan railed against the Soviet Union. When he entered the White House in 1981, he appeared to double down, and his team of hard-liners fanned the flames. But in his voice ...
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Charles Krauthammer's Nov. 4 op-ed column in The News, among other things, wants to give President Ronald Reagan credit for ending and winning the Cold War. Maybe he should also give Reagan credit for ...
Since Donald Trump’s rise within Republican ranks, conservatives have divided into two competing foreign policy camps. One contends that Trump’s approach suits the world in which we live and ...